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[–] [S] 103 points 3 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 89 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Aww the poor Russian bots think they can hide content by down voting it like they do on reddit? Won't anyone think of Putin's sad hurt feelings? ... Oh wait, that's right, we DO think of him -- every time we point and laugh.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's especially funny because of how Lemmy's default sort option works.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    There's enough weird pro-Russian tankies around I'd believe it's at least partially native.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    10 downvotes within 5 minutes of a post going up is very suspect, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t bot activity

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Eh. I get a bunch of downvotes every time I post on lemmy.world/c/conservative even if Im just posting the text of a law.

    I think that some here are just very liberal with the downvote button.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Why would any tankies support Russia? It's no longer a communist state anymore.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    The tankie unifying ideology is something closer to β€œeverything that is anti-US is good” rather than a coherent narrative about something that actually unifies historical or current communist dictatorships. So there tends to be a fair amount of Russian simping or Russia/US both-sides equivocation.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It's pure tribalism at that level, nothing to do with logic or even principles.

    In that specific tribe Russia = Good, US = Bad, always and with no case-by-case analysis.

    (Mind you, I did once turned a tankie away from that by pointing out that Russia's Invasion of Ukraine was the same kind of thing as the US' second invasion of Iraq so it made sense to judge the invaders in both exactly in the same way. Granted this was back in the early days of the invasion and I reckon that anybody who still remains pro-Russia now is either an authoritarian at hearth or a brainless unprincipled parrot).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    hmm, must be your instance.
    I'm on Kbin and 0 Downvotes

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah I don't think downvotes federate

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago

    Oh no! Anyway…

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Don't forget the Lemmy users they threatened over deleting their posts.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Haven’t heard about this, any additional context you can offer?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    there you go

    You have to scroll down to see the English translation.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Would Hetzner (a French company?) really shutdown the instance's server if the operator won't delete the offending post though? I assume it's safe to ignore the deletion request from the Russian government agency as long as you're not a Russian?

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    Well I'm going to fine Putin for excessive oversized table use!

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    This seems largely symbolic. I don't see Apple or Wikipedia paying, and paying might even be illegal at this point.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Rich coming from the Kremlin which actively undermines democratic governments around the world.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Didn't Apple formally leave Russia? Why would they be responsible for the content users UNOFFICIALLY access, lol

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Well russia is a dood dood head, come and fine me russia!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Lmao, I'd fine them too if that actually ever works out Like what does Russia expect

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Good luck with that.

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  • [+] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure €4000 fine is not that big of a problem for Apple

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Are you sure, Apple is a very small startup. I don't think they can handle that big of a fine. It's clearly a very big deal

    /s (obviously)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Good luck collecting.

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